池

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Historical forms of the character 池
Large seal script

Han character

池 (radical 85 水+3, 6 strokes, cangjie input 水心木 (EPD), four-corner 3411₂, composition ⿰氵也)

See also

• 罁

References

• KangXi: page 606, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17141
• Dae Jaweon: page 1000, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1555, character 3
• Unihan data for U+6C60

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		池

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): chí (chi²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄔˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ci⁴
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): chhṳ̀
• Min Dong (BUC): diè / dò̤
• Min Nan (POJ): tî
• Wu (Wiktionary): zr (T3)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: chí
    • Zhuyin: ㄔˊ
    • Wade-Giles: ch'ih²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chyr
    • IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰʐ̩³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: ci⁴
    • Yale: chìh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsi⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰiː²¹/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chhṳ̀
    • Hakka Romanization System: ciiˇ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: ci²
    • IPA: /t͡sʰɨ¹¹/
• Min Dong
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: diè / dò̤
    • IPA ^(key): /tie⁵³/, /to⁵³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tî
    • Tâi-lô: tî
    • Phofsit Daibuun: dii
    • IPA (Taipei): /ti²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ti¹³/
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • Wiktionary: zr (T3)
    • IPA ^(key): /z̻z̩²³/

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• Middle Chinese: /ɖˠiᴇ/, /dɑ/▼

Rime
Character	池	池
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	澄 (11)	定 (7)
Final (韻)	支 (13)	歌 (94)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	Chongniu III	I
Fanqie	直離切	徒河切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɖˠiᴇ/	/dɑ/
Pan Wuyun	/ɖᵚiɛ/	/dɑ/
Shao Rongfen	/ȡiɛ/	/dɑ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɖjiə̆/	/da/
Li Rong	/ȡje/	/dɑ/
Wang Li	/ȡǐe/	/dɑ/
Bernard Karlgren	/ȡʱie̯/	/dʱɑ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	chí	tuó

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*Cə.lraj/

  (Zhengzhang): /*l'aːl/, /*l'al/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	池
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	chí
Middle Chinese	‹ drje ›
Old Chinese	/*Cə.lraj/
English	pool (n.)
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	池	池
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	14769	14779
Phonetic component	也	也
Rime group	歌	歌
Rime subdivision	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	駝	馳
Old Chinese	/*l'aːl/	/*l'al/

Definitions

池

1. pool, pond
2. moat
3. cistern

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Japanese

Kanji

池

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• Goon: じ (ji)
• Kan’on: ち (chi)
• On (unclassified): た (ta) (non-Jōyō reading)
• Kun: いけ (ike)

Compounds

Compounds of 池

池袋 ‎(ikebukuro) 池水 ‎(chisui) 池沼 ‎(chishō) 池泉 ‎(chisen) 池亭 ‎(chitei) 池畔 ‎(chinan) 印池 ‎(inchi) 園池 ‎(enchi) 苑池 ‎(enchi) 内池 ‎(uchiike) 城池 ‎(jōchi) 溜池 ‎(temeike)

電池 ‎(denchi) 肉池 ‎(nikuchi) 墨池 ‎(bokuchi) 古池 ‎(furuike) 瑶池 ‎(yōchi) 人工池 ‎(jinkōke) 貯水池 ‎(chosuichi) 養魚池 ‎(yōgyochi) 養殖池 ‎(yōshokuchi) 用水池 ‎(yōsuiike) 金城湯池 ‎(kinjōtōchi) 酒池肉林 ‎(shuchinikurin)

Noun

池 ‎(hiragana いけ, romaji ike)

1. pond, small lake, pool

   池 (いけ)を乾 (ほ)す

   ike o hosu

   drain a pond

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Korean

Hanja

池 • ‎(ji, ta) (hangeul 지, 타, revised ji, ta, McCune-Reischauer chi, t'a, Yale ci, tha)

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Vietnamese

Han character

池 (trì, đìa, trầy, trề, tri, bǎng)

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